Crime
UK boat suppliers warned to be on alert for people smugglers (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Clothing
Newark police change rules to allow Muslim officers to wear hijabs on duty
(NJ.com) Female Muslim police officers will no longer be barred from wearing a hijab as part of their uniform, Newark officials announced Thursday. “To be able to recognize people’s religion, how they practice it, and allow them to do that safely and […]
Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena inquiry: Police chief ‘prioritised identifying bomber’
(BBC) One of the first police chiefs to arrive at the scene of the Manchester Arena attack has told a public inquiry she could have done more to bring emergency service commanders together. Former British Transport Police (BTP) Ch Insp Andrea Graham […]
Law Enforcement
Spain arrests 3 for urging extremist attacks against France
(AP) Three men whose social media posts allegedly encouraged extremist attacks against French targets are in custody in Spain after Spanish police and the European Union’s crime agency traced them to the southern city of Granada. The men threatened violent attacks against […]
Law Enforcement
French police detain eight men accused of financing terrorist activity in Syria
(Radio France) French anti-terrorist police have detained eight people in connection with an investigation into a terrorist financing network in Syria. Six men were arrested in a raid in several parts of Strasbourg, in Eastern France, Tuesday morning. Another man was arrested […]
Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena inquiry: Police chief regrets taking taxi to bomb scene
(BBC) A police chief has expressed regret and “professional embarrassment” after he arrived at the Manchester Arena in a taxi nearly three hours after the bombing which killed 22 people. British Transport Police (BTP) Supt Kyle Gordon was off-duty and not on-call […]
Law Enforcement
Six arrested in Denmark raid, suspected of IS links
(AFP) Six men suspected of being members of the so-called Islamic State group or funding it were arrested in an anti-terror raid in Denmark on Tuesday, police said. The suspects, whose identities were not disclosed, are aged between 27 and 35, police […]
Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena inquiry: Police chief admits bomb response failings
(BBC) A senior police chief has admitted his force failed to work effectively with other emergency services in the Manchester Arena attack’s aftermath. Robin Smith was the gold commander for British Transport Police (BTP) on the night of the 2017 bombing. The […]
Government & Politics
Le Pen’s comments criticized following terror attack
(Arab News) French far-right politician Marine Le Pen has been criticized for demanding tighter immigration controls after a police employee was murdered by an Islamist who had arrived in the country illegally. President Emmanuel Macron’s government said she had behaved like a […]
Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena inquiry: Police chief admits co-ordinated response failure
(BBC) A senior officer has accepted he failed to make sure the emergency services were working together in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack. Ch Insp Tony Lodge was based in British Transport Police’s (BTP) control room in London on the […]
Clerics & Preachers
French citizens, imams and police pay tribute to slain police worker
(Reuters) Hundreds of people including Muslim imams paid tribute on Monday to a female French police official stabbed to death last week by a French resident of Tunisian origin who shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is greatest.” The police administrative worker, a […]
Law Enforcement
Portugal’s police on moderate terrorist alert. Spain’s also
(Portugal Resident) Portugal’s police forces are described as on Grade 4 (moderate) terrorist alert following an announcement published online last week by a pro-Al Qaeda group inciting supporters to carry out lone wolf attacks in Western Europe. Says tabloid Correio da Manhã, […]
Law Enforcement
Knife attacker in France said to have watched jihadist videos
(AFP) A Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee outside Paris watched jihadist propaganda videos just before the attack, France’s anti-terror prosecutor said Sunday, adding that a fifth person was detained for questioning. Based on an analysis of the killer’s […]
Law Enforcement
Shock in hometown of Tunisian suspect in France attack
(AFP) A Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee in France in a suspected Islamist attack was depressed and not devout, relatives said Saturday, expressing shock and disbelief. They identified him as Jamel Gorchene, 36, who hailed from M’saken — […]
Law Enforcement
France reviews terror threat after suspected jihadist attack
(AFP) The French government held an emergency meeting Saturday after a Tunisian man stabbed a police employee to death near Paris in a suspected Islamist attack as investigators questioned three people linked to the assailant. The murder on Friday at a police […]
Law Enforcement
Three detained after police worker stabbed to death near Paris
(AFP) French police arrested three people linked to a 36-year-old Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee at her workplace southwest of Paris on Friday in a suspected Islamist attack. The murder at a police station in Rambouillet, a commuter […]
Law Enforcement
‘Hope it goes well’: Police email said they ‘could not justify’ escorting terrorist to event where he committed attack (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Austrian police find ‘enemies list’ in raids targeting Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas Raids took place days after last year's shootings in Vienna
(National-UAE) Raids on suspected Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas members in Austria last year led to the discovery of an “enemies list” of opponents of political Islam, according to people targeted by the groups. Austrian police carried out dozens of raids in an […]
Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena inquiry: Police ‘had to wait in 999 queue’ after bomb
(BBC) A police commander who took control after the Manchester Arena attack has described his frustration at being unable to contact emergency services. British Transport Police (BTP) Insp Ben Dawson was based in a London control room on the night of the […]
Law Enforcement
Suspect linked to 2016 Nice attack arrested in Italy
(AP) Italian media say a 28-year-old Albanian wanted in connection with a 2016 truck attack in the French city of Nice that killed 86 people has been arrested in southern Italy. News agency LaPresse said police arrested the suspect, identified as Endri […]
Crime
Muslim convert tasered at flat in Cornwall after threatening to shoot Jewish group Adam Burgoyne has a long history of committing crimes in Cornwall
(Cornwall Live) A Muslim convert threatened to carry out an atrocity against Jewish people before being tasered by armed police at his home in Cornwall. Adam Mark Burgoyne, 31, contacted another Muslim man in [an] attempt to get him to help him […]
Immigration
Refugees win rare victory in landmark Serbia pushback ruling
(AP) Hamid Ahmadi still can feel the cold of the February night when Serbian police left him and two dozen other refugees in a forest. Crammed into a police van, the refugees from Afghanistan thought they were headed to an asylum-seekers’ camp […]
Government & Politics
Swiss anti-terror law: More police powers for more security?
(Swiss Info) On June 13, Swiss voters will decide the fate of a new anti-terrorism law which has sparked controversy both domestically and abroad. For some, the law is a threat to the rights of innocent citizens, while others say it will […]
Health & Medicine
French police instructed to bend lockdown rules for Muslims during Ramadan: report
(Breitbart) Police and gendarmes in the French department of Tarn have reportedly been instructed to not give out warnings or fines to Muslims breaking Wuhan coronavirus curfew during Ramadan. Officers have allegedly been instructed by the Tarn prefecture not to hand out […]
Clothing
City council approves $175k settlement with woman who had hijab removed while in Yonkers police custody
(Yonkers Times) For the first time in more than one year, the Yonkers City Council returned to their chambers on the 4th floor of City Hall to hold their regular meeting on April 13. At that meeting the council adopted the following […]
Government & Politics
Sept. 11 victims call for release of FBI report detailing Saudi Arabia’s involvement in attacks
(Hill) Family members of victims and those injured in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are calling on Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to release publicly an FBI report detailing what role Saudi Arabia played in supporting the attacks. In a […]
Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena inquiry: Dad helping arena victims ‘told to leave by police’
(BBC) A father who tried to help victims of the Manchester Arena bombing was ordered to leave the area by armed police, the public inquiry into the 2017 attack has heard. Daren Buckley from Salford was leaving the arena with his son […]
Law Enforcement
Hezbollah sleeper agent looks to beat 40-year sentence Ali Kourani said the FBI tricked him into incriminating himself, landing him a sentence nearly three times longer than those handed down for more serious terrorism charges.
(Courthouse News) A Lebanese man who told the FBI he planned to become a suicide bomber for the terrorist group Hezbollah fought to overturn his 40-year sentence at the Second Circuit on Tuesday, saying agents led him to believe the information he […]
Children & Teens
Swiss government defends anti-terrorism law against critcism over child rights
(Reuters) The Swiss government on Tuesday defended a new anti-terrorism law that will be put to a nationwide referendum in June and that includes restrictive measures on child suspects. Under Switzerland’s system of direct democracy, a committee collected signatures to force a […]
Government & Politics
Security services and police to face questions over London Bridge attacker (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Afghan migrants arrested in Sweden suspected of plotting terror attack
(Breitbart) The Swedish security police Säpo arrested two Afghans, a man and a woman, during the Easter holiday on suspicion of plotting a terror attack in Stockholm county. Säpo announced the arrests earlier this week, saying that they took place on the […]
Law Enforcement
Suspected accomplice held in Vienna jihadist attack
(AFP) A man who may have been an accomplice in November’s deadly jihadist gun attack in the Austrian capital Vienna has been arrested, prosecutors said on Saturday. Convicted Islamic State sympathiser Kujtim Fejzulai killed four people on the evening of November 2 […]
Crime
Spanish police investigating migrant boat deaths detain five
(AP) Spanish police say they have detained five men for allegedly navigating two migrant boats to the Canary Islands and being responsible for the deaths of some of its passengers. The men are being investigated for “favoring illegal immigration” with three of […]
Children & Teens
Muslim girl held by family to stop her seeing Hindu boy Family threatened to kill Pakistani girl, Indian boy
(ANSA) A Muslim girl was held captive by her family to stop her seeing a Hindu boy, Italian police reported Thursday. The incident happened in the Tuscan city of Arezzo last weekend, they said. The girl managed to get an email to […]
Law Enforcement
Massive Iranian spy network in Europe revealed (LINK ONLY)
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Christians
Suspect arrested over Easter linked to French church plot
(AP) French anti-terrorism investigators said Thursday that an 18-year-old woman arrested over the Easter weekend was suspected of planning an attack on a church. New details have emerged about the teen, who was living in a housing project in Beziers, in southern […]
Government & Politics
McCarthy asks FBI, CIA for briefing after two men on terror watchlist stopped at border
(Hill) House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is asking the FBI and CIA for a classified briefing with other top lawmakers following reports that two people on the … FBI’s terror watchlist were apprehended after crossing the southern border with Mexico. “This […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Muslim nuclear plant engineer wins religious discrimination claim after bosses called police (LINK ONLY)
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Christians
Morocco’s intelligence enabled France to prevent terrorist attack in church The data enabled France to prevent a serious terrorist attack that a national planned in a church in France.
(Morocco World News) Morocco’s General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) handed France essential information about a French woman of Moroccan origin, who was plotting a terrorist attack in a church. The data enabled France to prevent the attack, a statement from the […]
Immigration
U.S. arrested two Yemenis on terror watchlist who tried to cross border from Mexico
(Reuters) U.S. border agents in recent months arrested two Yemeni men on a terror watchlist in separate incidents as they crossed the border with Mexico illegally, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on Monday. The men, arrested in January and March near […]
Government & Politics
Rep. Murphy facing criticism over deleted tweet in response to Muslim congresswoman
(WITN) An eastern Carolina congressman is facing criticism after tagging a Muslim congresswoman in a now-deleted tweet invoking the September 11th terror attacks. Following Friday’s Capitol grounds attack that saw a police officer killed, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota tweeted her condolences […]
Law Enforcement
5 women arrested in southern France in suspected attack plot
(AP) Police in southern France have arrested four women and a girl as part of an anti-terrorist investigation into a suspected attack plot targeting the city of Montpellier. A police official in the Herault region confirmed the overnight arrests in the city […]
Law Enforcement
Sister of Alabama ISIS bride Hoda Muthana arrested with husband while allegedly trying to join terrorists
(AL.com) The 29-year-old sister of a Hoover woman who left her family to join ISIS in 2014 was arrested Wednesday in New Jersey as she and her husband prepared to board a cargo ship to go and fight for the terrorist group, […]
Clothing
CAIR demands changes after Muslim woman was deprived of head covering in Santa Clara County jail Woman said deputies forcibly took her hijab and that she had to resort to substituting with a sweater then a shirt after she didn’t get it back
(Mercury News) One of the region’s preeminent Muslim rights groups is demanding immediate policy and training changes based on a woman’s account that her hijab was forcibly removed while she was booked into a Santa Clara County jail, prompting her to resort […]
Law Enforcement
Streatham terror inquest ‘should examine attacker’s background,’ coroner told (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Belgium seeks extradition of Iraqis arrested in Athens
(Kathimerini) Legal procedures have been launched for the extradition to Belgium of three Iraqi nationals who were arrested in Athens last week on European arrest warrants. All three are accused of participating in a ring based in Belgium that trafficked migrants and […]
Law Enforcement
Manchester Arena inquiry: Officer accepts police control room failings
(BBC) A police fixation with getting armed units to the Manchester Arena after it was bombed impacted the wider emergency response, an inquiry has heard. The Manchester Arena inquiry was told the former police control room manager accepted his staff did not […]
Law Enforcement
AFP arrest two men on terrorism charges following Brisbane and Melbourne joint operations Co-ordinated raids across Australia have led to the arrest of two men federal police allege ran a sophisticated terrorism network.
(NCA NewsWire) A sophisticated terror network funding violent extremists has allegedly been uncovered in southeast Queensland, with two men arrested by federal police. The pair were taken into custody on Thursday following a co-ordinated operation in Queensland and Victoria, and charged with […]
Law Enforcement
Spain police bust suspected Al-Qaeda finance ring
(AFP) Spanish police said Thursday they had dismantled a ring suspected of financing Al-Qaeda and arrested three men, including the top representative of Spain’s Muslim community. Those detained were suspected of having “exploited an NGO to finance the activities of terrorist fighters,” […]
Children & Teens
German woman accused of fighting for IS in Syria arrested
(AP) A German woman accused of taking her son to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria and fighting for the extremist group there was arrested Wednesday after landing in Berlin. The woman, identified only as Stefanie A. in line with German privacy rules, […]